1.
There is a discussion topic on "whether a non-european writer/text has to be
westernized to be appreciated" by a western institute.
2.
If you believe in the postive fuctions of awarding, you need to believe as well as
give yourself in to their laws and ideology of giving awards, like a man has to
give up anarchy if he (chooses to) live(s) in a nation.
Otherwise, it is self-contradictory.
3.
As to translation, according to Saussure's theory of language, no languages
can be translated to another.
One other point to make is that, Saussure's linguistic theory is not for any
applied languges in the world.
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